diff --git a/superset/utils.py b/superset/utils.py
index cf104fabe26fd..d85bf4b195e0e 100644
--- a/superset/utils.py
+++ b/superset/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
 from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
 from email.utils import formatdate
-from flask import flash, Markup, render_template
+from flask import flash, Markup, render_template, url_for, redirect, request
+from flask_appbuilder.const import (
+    LOGMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED,
+    FLAMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED,
+    PERMISSION_PREFIX
+)
+from flask_appbuilder._compat import as_unicode
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
 from past.builtins import basestring
 from pydruid.utils.having import Having
@@ -513,3 +519,35 @@ def get_email_address_list(address_string):
         else:
             address_string = [address_string]
     return address_string
+
+
+# Forked from the flask_appbuilder.security.decorators
+# TODO(bkyryliuk): contribute it back to FAB
+def has_access(f):
+    """
+        Use this decorator to enable granular security permissions to your
+        methods. Permissions will be associated to a role, and roles are
+        associated to users.
+
+        By default the permission's name is the methods name.
+    """
+    if hasattr(f, '_permission_name'):
+        permission_str = f._permission_name
+    else:
+        permission_str = f.__name__
+
+    def wraps(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        permission_str = PERMISSION_PREFIX + f._permission_name
+        if self.appbuilder.sm.has_access(
+                permission_str, self.__class__.__name__):
+            return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            logging.warning(LOGMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED.format(
+                permission_str, self.__class__.__name__))
+            flash(as_unicode(FLAMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED), "danger")
+        # adds next arg to forward to the original path once user is logged in.
+        return redirect(url_for(
+            self.appbuilder.sm.auth_view.__class__.__name__ + ".login",
+            next=request.path))
+    f._permission_name = permission_str
+    return functools.update_wrapper(wraps, f)
diff --git a/superset/views.py b/superset/views.py
index 4e5cd7be53935..32f59044bba8d 100755
--- a/superset/views.py
+++ b/superset/views.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from flask_appbuilder import ModelView, CompactCRUDMixin, BaseView, expose
 from flask_appbuilder.actions import action
 from flask_appbuilder.models.sqla.interface import SQLAInterface
-from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access, has_access_api
+from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access_api
 from flask_appbuilder.widgets import ListWidget
 from flask_appbuilder.models.sqla.filters import BaseFilter
 from flask_appbuilder.security.sqla import models as ab_models
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     app, appbuilder, cache, db, models, sm, sql_lab, sql_parse,
     results_backend, security, viz, utils,
 )
+from superset.utils import has_access
 from superset.source_registry import SourceRegistry
 from superset.models import DatasourceAccessRequest as DAR
 from superset.sql_parse import SupersetQuery